Globally,cities undergoing economic and governance transformations have expe-rienced surging demand and ample challenges with regard to the competition for talent at all levels.While competition for talent takes shape...Globally,cities undergoing economic and governance transformations have expe-rienced surging demand and ample challenges with regard to the competition for talent at all levels.While competition for talent takes shape in a wide range of political-economic settings,it remains unclear how talent policy can be rationalized and implemented in Chinese cities where migration is subject to various degrees of control.This paper unravels the framework,nature and ramifications of talent policy through the explication of Shanghai’s case,a China’s most economically via-ble,migrant-receiving city.We show that the city’s talent policy is manipulated by selectively inclusive politics that has a binary effect of enabling the expansion of entitlements to talented migrants while at the same time justifying the significance of migration control.We posit that such selectively inclusive politics is embedded in entrepreneurial urban governance that prioritizes economic imperatives over the rights of migrant citizenship.Talent policy animated in Shanghai is functionally analogous to national policies employed by many countries to regulate immigration and citizenship status.展开更多
文摘Globally,cities undergoing economic and governance transformations have expe-rienced surging demand and ample challenges with regard to the competition for talent at all levels.While competition for talent takes shape in a wide range of political-economic settings,it remains unclear how talent policy can be rationalized and implemented in Chinese cities where migration is subject to various degrees of control.This paper unravels the framework,nature and ramifications of talent policy through the explication of Shanghai’s case,a China’s most economically via-ble,migrant-receiving city.We show that the city’s talent policy is manipulated by selectively inclusive politics that has a binary effect of enabling the expansion of entitlements to talented migrants while at the same time justifying the significance of migration control.We posit that such selectively inclusive politics is embedded in entrepreneurial urban governance that prioritizes economic imperatives over the rights of migrant citizenship.Talent policy animated in Shanghai is functionally analogous to national policies employed by many countries to regulate immigration and citizenship status.
